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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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